I've seen some posts on here that attracted my interest even though I wasn't interested in the subject, well I found a subject that peeked my interest without knowing the subject.
Check this story out and you tell me..BTW.. I'm an old dumbass. so go easy...just tell me what's going on. I have no clue !
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Nashville prosecutor has been fired after reports surfaced that he made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations in some cases.
That case involved a woman with a 20-year history of mental illness who had been charged with neglect after her 5-day-old baby mysteriously died. Her defense attorney said Holmgren wouldn't go forward with a plea deal to keep the woman out of prison unless she had the surgery.
The cases evoke a dark corner of American history where the mentally ill, minorities and those deemed "deficient" were forced to undergo surgery so they could not have children.
Holmgren, who has been both praised and fiercely criticized for his aggressive courtroom tactics on behalf of children, said he routinely asked abusers and mothers who gave birth to infants who test positive for drugs to go on birth control. A court could not order someone to take birth control, so defendants in those cases would have to consent to such a condition.
Randers stabbed herself in the stomach when she was pregnant in 2004 and then was arrested at the Nashville airport after making threats to her unborn child when she was pregnant again in 2012, he said. She was under court supervision for her mental illness when she fled her home state of Minnesota and gave birth to a baby in 2012 that would die five days later in Nashville.
Randers has since been found not guilty by reason of insanity and is confined to an institution.
Funk would not give a reason for Holmgren's departure. He did say that he was faced with a backlog of more than 130 child abuse cases that had been sitting in the office, some as far back as to 2010. He said he was instituting new procedures to make sure they didn't languish in the system.
[video]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/02/tennessee-prosecutor-fired-after-reports-female-sterilization-in-plea-deals/[/video]
Now you know what I know and hopefully someone will make sense of this for me. I am conflicted between the reasoning behind his reasoning and the power that has to be usurped to accomplish it.
Also missing is the 300 lb gorilla....what race were these people, I see no inference making that an issue...then why was he fired ? Was the Doctor black and the patient white or just the opposite...or does it really matter ?
Help me please, I'm so confused.
Check this story out and you tell me..BTW.. I'm an old dumbass. so go easy...just tell me what's going on. I have no clue !
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Nashville prosecutor has been fired after reports surfaced that he made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations in some cases.
That case involved a woman with a 20-year history of mental illness who had been charged with neglect after her 5-day-old baby mysteriously died. Her defense attorney said Holmgren wouldn't go forward with a plea deal to keep the woman out of prison unless she had the surgery.
The cases evoke a dark corner of American history where the mentally ill, minorities and those deemed "deficient" were forced to undergo surgery so they could not have children.
Holmgren, who has been both praised and fiercely criticized for his aggressive courtroom tactics on behalf of children, said he routinely asked abusers and mothers who gave birth to infants who test positive for drugs to go on birth control. A court could not order someone to take birth control, so defendants in those cases would have to consent to such a condition.
Randers stabbed herself in the stomach when she was pregnant in 2004 and then was arrested at the Nashville airport after making threats to her unborn child when she was pregnant again in 2012, he said. She was under court supervision for her mental illness when she fled her home state of Minnesota and gave birth to a baby in 2012 that would die five days later in Nashville.
Randers has since been found not guilty by reason of insanity and is confined to an institution.
Funk would not give a reason for Holmgren's departure. He did say that he was faced with a backlog of more than 130 child abuse cases that had been sitting in the office, some as far back as to 2010. He said he was instituting new procedures to make sure they didn't languish in the system.
[video]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/02/tennessee-prosecutor-fired-after-reports-female-sterilization-in-plea-deals/[/video]
Now you know what I know and hopefully someone will make sense of this for me. I am conflicted between the reasoning behind his reasoning and the power that has to be usurped to accomplish it.
Also missing is the 300 lb gorilla....what race were these people, I see no inference making that an issue...then why was he fired ? Was the Doctor black and the patient white or just the opposite...or does it really matter ?
Help me please, I'm so confused.
